Contributed by Michael Walther on May 24, 2011
PRETENDER DR. NICK
What does it take to be turned around if you are a pretender? Dr. Nick Yphantides can help us. Although he was a true Christian he was living part of his life in a purely hypocritical manner.
Dr. Nick’s specialty was preventative medicine. Every day he was trying to help
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Contributed by Jim Butcher on Nov 15, 2018
Scott Harrison, founder of charity:water, shares this story:
"I recently had the chance to visit charity:water's very first project. It was a well that we had funded on my thirty-first birthday and then built in the IDP camp of Bobi, Uganda.
"The sprawling camp of 31,000 people had cleared out,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 15, 2002
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WHY DO WE "EAT HUMBLE PIE?"
In the Middle Ages, eating humble pie was something people did literally. "Umbles pie" was a meal consisting of the stringy or fatty remains of an animal (from the Latin lubulus, or loin), usually a deer. People who ate it were poor and, thus, humble. By the 16th
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Contributed by C Jordan on Sep 4, 2008
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"The historic Christian teaching holds that national Israel was a type or a forerunner of the church, and that the church replaced Israel on the day of Pentecost... God has but one plan of salvation. There is also only one body of God. This body is made up of every born again individual from both
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Nov 18, 2008
HARMONIC CONVERGENCE
On August 16, 1987, a group of people tried to apply this concept (karma) with what they called the Harmonic Convergence. Thousands of people gathered at Mount Tamalpais just north of San Francisco and other designated religious hot spots around the world, such as Stonehenge,
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 30, 2009
Matters of debate between rabbis included how to implement the commands. Contrast later Rabbis words, "How far should you go in admonishing people? Rav said: Until they beat you up for reprimanding them (Arachin 16b)…I might think that you should admonish him even if his face turned white for
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Contributed by Clarence Clough on Jul 25, 2010
GOD'S SUPPLY
Missionary statesman Hudson Taylor had complete trust in God's faithfulness. In his journal he wrote:
"Our heavenly Father is a very experienced One. He knows very well that His children wake up with a good appetite every morning... He sustained 3 million Israelites in the wilderness
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Dec 19, 2011
SHORT AND TO THE POINT
The Gettysburg Address was a simple speech made by A. Lincoln to dedicate the cemetery of that great battle. It consisted of 272 words and lasted a little over 2 minutes. Speeches of that day usually went hours, as Everett Edward’s two hour speech just before Lincoln. We
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